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Headword:
*para/gesqai
Adler number: pi,310
Translated headword: to be swayed
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to be persuaded.
Thucydides [writes]: "he told them not to be swayed by words alone [but] to send some of their number [...] to bring them news [...]."[1]
*para/gesqai: metapei/qesqai. *qoukudi/dhs: keleu/ei au)tou\s mh\ lo/gois mo/non para/gesqai h)\ pe/myai sfw=n au)tw=n a)/ndras, oi(/tines a)paggelou=si.
Notes:
The headword is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[1] An approximation of
Thucydides 1.91.2 (web address 1):
Themistocles (
theta 124,
theta 125), in
Sparta in 479 BCE, is seeking to allay the Spartans' fears that the walls of
Athens are being rebuilt.
Web address 1
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Translated by: Robert Leigh on 6 September 2009@13:33:24.
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